Maddie Stone
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Why Did An Enormous Chunk Of West Antarctica Suddenly Start Melting?
300,000 square miles is nearly twice the area of California. It’s difficult to visualise a space that vast, but go ahead and give it a try. Now, imagine this California plus-sized chunk of land is covered in thousands of feet of ice. Then, all of a sudden, that frozen fortress becomes a wading pool.
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Male Tortoises Mysteriously Stop Boning
There are only a few things in this life animals really have to do. They have to eat, they have to crap, and they have to bang. So when conservation biologists transplant a bunch of wild animals in order to save them, but half of them stop getting laid as a result, it’s cause for…
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That ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Is Freaking Out Again
It’s almost certainly not aliens, but once again, Tabby’s Star is acting hella weird. The star that first became our planetary obsession back in the spring of 2015 — when astronomer Jason Wright suggested its weird flickering behaviour might be the result of an alien megastructure — is, once again, flickering. But unlike previous stellar…
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How Much Force Could A T.Rex Bite Deliver?
In the 1993 cult classic Jurassic Park, a T. rex manages to scare the living crap out of kid heroes Lex and Tim Murphy by casually ripping apart their Ford Explorer like it’s a scrap of meat. It’s a scene that crystallised the destructive power of this extinct apex predator in the public consciousness —…